glowbirdt (gloʻberd)

[Early mod. E. glo bird, glowbard, globard, globerd, etc., Wright, Vocab. (ed. Wülcker). Now the signe common to them both, testifying as well the ripene e of the one as the seednes of the other, are the glo - birds or glo-worms, cicindelæ, shining in the evening over the cornfields. Holland , tr. of Pliny, xviii. 26. glower, glour (glou'er, glour), v. i. [Also glowr; a var. of glore, As Tammie glower'd , amaz'd and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. Burns, Tam o' Shanter. And was to him beholding it most like A little spark extinguish'd to the eye That glows again ere suddenly it die. IMG:content-2425.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To feel a more or le intense sensation of heat; be hot, as the skin; have a burning sensation. The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games. Cowper , Tirocinium, 1. 304. 4. To exhibit a strong bright color; be lustrously red or brilliant; shine vividly. A Chirche and a Chapaile with chambers a-lofte, With gaie glittering glas glowing as the sonne. Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 122. You will but make it blush. And glow with shame of your proceedings. Her face glour, v.] An angry or threatening stare. What shall I say of our three brigadiers, But that they are incapable of fears, Of strength prodigious, and of looks so froward, That every glour they gave would fright a coward. Pennecuik, Poems (1715), р. 22. And gave him [a dog] a glower from time to time, and an intimation of a po ible kick. Dr. J. Brown, Rab, p. 8. glowing (glo'ing), n. [Verbal [V n. of glow, v.] 1. The act or state of giving out intense heat and light.-2. Ardor. Persons who pretend to feel The glowings of uncommon zeal. Lloyd, A Tale. glowingly (glō'ing-li), adv. In a glowing manner; with great brightne ; with ardent heat or pa ion. A little stoop there may be to allay him (He would grow too rank else), a small eclipse to shadow him; But out he must break glowingly again. Fletcher, Wit without Money, iv. 1. Glow'd, as I look'd at her. Tennyson, Fair Women. 5. To feel the heat of pa ion; be ardent; be animated by intense love, zeal, anger, or the like. The war's whole art each private soldier knows, And with a general's love of conquest glows , Add is on , The Campaign, While the arc-lamp emits twenty-two hundred candlelight per horse-power, and the glow - lamp gives but a hundred and twenty, it is the po ibility of so reducing the light to a minimum that has brought the latter system forward, Science , V. 342. glow-worm